CONCEPT | “Decolonizing the Future” is the first handmade artwork created by Cariño Ateliê. It repositions the Black body within the symbolic territory of tomorrow. For decades, narratives of the future — technology, science, fiction and progress — have often been imagined from a Eurocentric perspective. Tomorrow was frequently designed without the bodies, histories and cosmologies of Black and Afro-Brazilian people.
In this work, the axis shifts. The Black figure occupies the center of the construction of the future. The face becomes a territory of imagination where ancestry, nature and invention coexist. Memory and future meet to project new possibilities of existence.
The artwork is part of a residential research project by the artist Lucas Belchior on Afrofuturism in the visual arts, directly engaging with this theme — an artistic and philosophical movement that connects past, present and future through the experiences of the African diaspora. A field of creation where technology, spirituality and Black identity coexist as a force of transformation.
To decolonize the future is to reclaim something fundamental: the right to imagine tomorrow from our own roots.
DETAILS | This is the only artwork in the launch collection of Cariño Ateliê produced entirely by hand. Unlike the other pieces in the collection, this work is not a print. It is the original artwork, constructed directly on paper through manual processes of drawing, painting and collage. Every element of the composition was created by hand, making this piece absolutely unique.
There is no other like it.
Whoever acquires this artwork will own the only existing version IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.
SPECIFICATIONS | Original artwork created manually with ink drawing, oil pastel painting, professional colored pencils and hand-made collages using real objects. Produced on 170 g couché paper, with a matte finish that preserves color depth, texture and richness of details.
Size: A3 vertical (29.7 × 42 cm).
THIS ARTWORK is sold exclusively with a frame. Delivered only framed. Includes a basic black A3 frame, ready for display.
BEYOND THE ENTIRE EXPERIENCE, this artwork carries the first signature ever used by the artist Lucas Belchior in his career, making it the only existing piece with this signature.
